First, she helped put the thugs who gang groped her at the Puerto Rican Day Parade behind bars, and now Anne Peyton Bryant will have her day in court against the people she said did nothing to help her – the NYPD.

Jury selection is slated to start this week on Bryant’s lawsuit charging the Police Department’s inaction led to the sexual assaults of her and other women on that awful June day in Central Park almost six years ago.

After the parade on June 11, 2000, a roving gang of creeps began molesting every woman in sight – including Bryant, who was skating in the park near The Plaza hotel with a male friend.

She became the most outspoken of the more than 50 women attacked that day – blasting both her attackers and the cops, who she said weren’t around and ignored her pleas for help after she did track them down.

Bryant’s lawyer, Susan Karten, said her case is “really focused at the top” of the department, including then-Police Commissioner Howard Safir, who admitted in his deposition that “mistakes were made” in the NYPD’s planning and crowd control.

She said Safir and other police brass will testify at the trial, which is expected to last about three weeks.

Karten said her case includes “documents nobody’s ever seen, tapes that nobody’s heard and videos that have never been seen.”

She said the evidence, along with testimony from Bryant, other victims and witnesses, will prove the NYPD “was negligent and foresaw the type of behavior going on that day.”

“There were systematic failures and breakdowns in command,” she said. “They knew there was potential for an explosive situation and did nothing.”

Mark Palomino, the lawyer representing the city and the NYPD, declined comment. Bryant said she is dreading taking the witness stand but wants the police to be “held accountable.”

“It’s a very painful experience,” she said. “I just resolved at some point I was not going to roll over and die. I was not going to walk away.”